Motion
4+

Simply special effects.

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Description

Designed for video editors, Motion is a powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D and 3D titles, fluid transitions, and realistic effects in real time.

2D and 3D Titles • Import 360° media and design 360° titles, generators, and effects • Build 3D titles from scratch, design them with easy-to-use templates, or instantly convert any existing 2D title to 3D• Easily create beautiful titles that you can animate using more than 100 drag-and-drop behaviors and intuitive text animation tools• Customize 3D titles to create endless looks with over 90 Apple-designed 3D materials including various metal, wood, and stone surfaces • Vector-based characters scale, skew, and rotate with pristine sharpness, while the modern engine in Motion lets you design in real-time

Motion Graphics for Final Cut Pro• Save any title, effect, transition or generator and access it directly in Final Cut Pro• Customize Final Cut Pro titles, effects, and transitions by opening them in Motion• Create Smart Motion Templates with any combination of single parameters and rigs, which let you control a group of parameters with a simple slider, pop-up menu, or checkbox in Final Cut Pro• Save any 360° motion graphic and access it immediately from the effects browser in Final Cut Pro

Stunning Effects• Choose from more than 230 behaviors for natural-looking motion without keyframes• Use advanced color grading filters like the color wheels, color curves and hue/saturation curves• Track a moving object in a video clip with the point tracking and match move feature• Create an accurate chroma key in a single step with the Keying filter• Use SmoothCam to eliminate camera jitters and image stabilization to smooth bumpy shots• Create your own paintbrushes and 3D strokes or use one of 140 brush presets• Design your own particle emitters or choose from 200 presets for real-world effects such as smoke and sparkles• Choose a circle or rectangle mask or use the bezier and freehand mask tools to quickly draw and adjust control points for rotoscoping• Use the intuitive keyframe tools in Motion for precise control of the timing and position in your animation• Apply 360° effects including blurs, glows, and more• Add the Tiny Planet filter when adding 360º video to a non-360° project to create interesting spherical looks• Harness a thriving ecosystem of third-party FxPlug plug-ins with custom interfaces for tasks like advanced tracking, advanced motion graphics, and more

Effortless 3D• Transition from 2D to 3D space by adding cameras• Create 3D scenes within a 360° project for ultra-realistic 360° environments• Set up realistic shadows that animate dynamically with the movement of cameras and lights• Track objects or groups of objects with drag-and-drop ease by applying the Camera Framing behavior• Selectively define focus as an object moves in 3D space• Turn any shape, video plane, or paint stroke into a reflective surface in 3D space

What’s New

Mar 21, 2019

Version 5.4.3

• Detects media files that may be incompatible with future versions of macOS after Mojave• Improves reliability when sharing video to YouTube

Introduced in Version 5.4.2Advanced color grading • Use color wheels in 1-up or 4-up layouts to quickly adjust hue, saturation, and brightness• Apply professional color curves to make ultra-fine adjustments to color and contrast• Hue/saturation curves let you select and change a specific hue or brightness level while leaving other parts of the image unchanged• Use the eye dropper with the color and hue/saturation curves to quickly sample parts of an image for adjustment• Apply custom LUTs from popular color grading apps and sites• Adjust color corrections over time with precise keyframe controlsComic filter• Instantly turn any photo or video into a comic book illustration• Choose from a variety of styles to create color, monochrome, or grayscale artwork• Refine the comic book look with simple controls to adjust ink edges, fill, and smoothness

Tiny Planet filter• Add the Tiny Planet filter when adding 360º video to a non-360° project to create interesting spherical looks• Use the Z and X Rotation parameters to wrap your tiny planet effect into an infinite cylinder• Adjust the Y Rotation parameter to move your subject horizontally within the tiny planet• Animate the field of view to transition from a close up to a satellite view flying high above your footage • Give generators and titles a powerfully warped look by applying the Tiny Planet filter

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5

104 Ratings

104 Ratings

ShawnFCP
, 06/07/2017

Little talked about but absoluty great app!

I use Motion constantly in conjunction with FCPX and the two are extremely powerful together! If you are using FCPX without Motion I highly recommend purchasing it and learning it because it will open up a new world of motion graphics and effects. I love the ability to create templates and effects in Motion and use them right inside of FCPX. Everyone talks about After Effects but, other than 3D camera tracking and the puppet tool, there really isn’t anything I can’t do in Motion that I could in After Effects. In fact, I can do many thing in Motion that require expencive plug-ins to acheive in After Effects. Not to mention Motion is much faster to use and provides far better real time playback.

To the Motion team, Keep up the great work!

scionbro
, 01/01/2018

Great app, but hangs after simple tasks

RIght after I bought motion, I loved it. It is really simple and easy to use. PLus there is alot of support for the app. My only problem with it is that on my iMac11,1 the app is constantly hanging and locks up unless you relaunch it. This mainly happens with audio analyzing. It says it finished analysing the audio then I press play to see if it worked. 8 out of 10 times motion will just freeze. I have sent apple many crash reports to Apple and i would love if they could fix all the problems people are having with motion freezing, crashing, or hanging.

GOODD64
, 01/04/2018

Amazing

I’ll be honest, I hate how this program handles shadow effects for 3d models. But even tho this program is mainly for FCPX transtions it can create some amazing standalone videos. I just wish Apple would push this program in that direction like After Effects. I’ll still chose this program over After Effects because of how simple the layout is and how it is clearly optomized for apple computers.